1. If you had 2 packages of cream cheese in your fridge, what would you make with them? (Besides cream cheese icing. My brain needs new suggestions.) [EDIT]: And would your suggestion change if whipping cream were added to the equation? Because I have that too.

2. Is it wrong that I am planning to cast on a 2nd fair-isle sweater while still working on Venezia?

3. Further to #2, how many sweater projects is too many? Because I have startitis like burning, and so much procrastination just waiting to get out.

4. In my next set of Korknisse (Korknisses?) I am planning a colour-palette theme. Reds/Oranges, or Blues/Purples?

5. Exactly what proportion of YouTube is filled with clips from ‘So You Think You Can Dance’? I’m guessing upwards of 80%. ;)

Take giant hunk of cream cheese. Warm it up if it’s not soft. Mix in salsa until you’ve got a sort of paste. Spread it over a tortilla, roll up the tortilla into a long skinny tube, then chop up the tube into smaller pieces. Stick the pieces in the oven for 20 minutes or so, then eat ‘em with lots of sour cream.

Repeat as necessary, or until you run out of ingredients, or until you can no longer fit into your pants.

1. My favorite use of a block of cream cheese, if there are no bagels to be found (and you don’t want to know how much cream cheese I can fit on a bagel) is spread in the bottom of a microwave-safe bowl, covered with a can of chili, covered with a healthy sprinkling of grated cheddar, and microwaved til it’s all bubbling, and consumed with lots of tortilla chips.

2. I have about ten things on the needles at any given time. Cast away.

3. If you start mixing up patterns in your head, it might be time to slow down, but otherwise, go nuts?

4. Purple/Blues.

5. Only 40%. The other 40 is high schoolers trying to imitate the clips from SYTYCD.

Definitely the cheesecake brownies. That’s assuming you have the other ingredients you need. If not, I’m sure you have sugar – when we were kids we used to mix cream cheese with sugar and then just eat it!

Working on more than one Fair Isle sweater at a time helps keep your brain active. There is a danger of becoming mentally sluggish in the dark months of winter – you obviously owe it to yourself :-)

Oh Glenna, what fun, but my brain is in the nasty greedy clutches of The Crud, and everyone else seems to have said it all, or nearly anyway…. some kind of cheesecake bar? (or ‘slice’) with a shortbread type crust then for the topping, cream cheese and whatever?

I’m not a cheese cake person but I love cream cheese. One of my favorites (assuming you’re not vegetarian) is to mix 8 ounces of cream cheese and 4 tbsp of butter. Nuke that a little to soften it. Add 2 tsp of cumin and 1 tsp of chili powder and salt and pepper to taste. Mix that all together and spread on 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts. Sprinkle with 8 oz of shredded cheddar cheese and bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Want low fat? This isn’t it. But it’s yummy and the leftovers freeze well.

And if you only have 4 oz, this is a good recipe. http://www.recipezaar.com/43574 I use ground chicken instead of beef and I make my own taco seasoning mix and my own taco sauce (both recipes found on that site) since I never seem to have any on hand.

Finally, put the cream cheese in mashed potatoes as you’re mashing. OMG! Mashed potatoes are already my favorite meal in the world but with cream cheese it kicks it up a lot.

Make a dip, using the cream cheese, one red and one yellow bell pepper, about 3 spring onions, pepper and salt. Just put everything in a food processor and pulse until the bell peppers become tiny but still are visible. Eventually add a little cream.

1. A Baileys cheesecake, I don’t have a recipe but I think it is the same as any other with lots of Baileys! Absolutely gorgeous.
2. Its not wrong just mad!
3. I think there is a disease going round, startitis fever! I have it too with small knits. 20 sweaters would be a limit, you could guarantee a row on each an evening then!
4. Blues and purples.
5. Who knows!

Baked stuffed French toast! It’s so amazing. I use the following recipe as a starting-off point, but I basically toss in whatever I feel like (usually dried blueberries instead of raisins, or no fruit at all) and use low-fat versions of the dairy products because that’s what I have around (it’s still plenty rich). I also keep the brown sugar out of the custard mixture, and instead sprinkle it in the middle along with the cream cheese and nuts. Soooooo good.

1. I eat cream cheese on toast for breakfast everyday (I have a serious toast addiction). Two containers lasts me approx. 1.5 weeks. But not everyone loves cream cheese like I do. I’d suggest some experimenting for a nice sauce for pasta/veggies.

2. Nah, go for it. Fair isle is addictive, no?

3. Well, the more wips, the slower they go.

4. Blues/Purples.

5. It boggles the mind to think what might all be on YouTube. the fact that it occasioanlly yields up something truly funny means that I still like it!